Traffic in the Pines

I noticed a good deal less people in 2008 when gas prices were up. I know personally my drives out to the barrens will be less frequent if prices are high.
 
With prices up, but on the way down (- 4 cents around here overnight), folks will probably defer any long distance trips and stay closer to home. Might mean more local vacations/day trips. Great for local business, but not so much for those that want some privacy.
 
My car does well with gas so I will not be changing my routine. If I just travel to and from the pines that usually takes me one hour each way depending on where I go. I can do this both Saturday and Sunday and still visit my mom and go to and from work all week on one tank of gas.

Guy
 
I cut down a lot in 08 ' as well . I'm in So , Monmouth , so Ocean Co is Ok . Probably won't see much of Burlington Co if gas keeps going up .Hopefully , prices come back down .
 
It costs me $20-$25 in gas and tolls to make a trip to the pine barrens, which I do about 2-3 times a week. I have stopped making short stay trips out there. If I don't have at least two hours available to fish or four hours available to hike, I generally don't go.

Gas consumption is down due to the high price and the slow economy, but it sure doesn't seem like there are fewer cars on the road when I am out driving around.
 
Do a Google search for "gasoline demand destruction" and you will see that this phenomenon has been studied. There's a certain price point where drivers cut back significantly on their auto usage, it's probably somewhere around $4.00+ .

Scott, that's also what I thought when I saw this thread. :) I spend a lot less time visiting the core pine areas (Wharton, etc) than I used to. I'm out in the woods when I go 30 feet from my door and that fulfills a large portion of my desire to get into nature. Aside from the cost of gas, I just don't enjoy spending time in my car and sitting in traffic as much as I used to.
 
My evening walks a couple three times a week starting right behind me and trails to a little stream and some other points of interest do me just fine as well. Yep, I basically live there too. My road ends in the Pines and as Scott mentions, no way around it. What I pay for gas and what my car uses... well, I try not to think about it and just drive. No choice really.

Last year I took my Corvette out on some easy trails behind Batsto. It was nice. Shooting for Quaker bridge next.
What I use in that is over $4.00 per gallon and...an Octane additive as well. With 8 miles to the gallon or so and a 17 gallon, fuel cell I will not be taking it woodsin' much in 2012.

Good luck all,

g.
 
I can cut some things out, but my trips to the pines can't be one of them. I'm 5 minutes from Winslow WMA, 30 minutes from Atsion or Batsto. I'll be out the same as in past years. If I didn't, this hectic world we live in would drive me nuts.

Largo, you took your Vette on sand roads? As a youngster, I took my Chevelle, then my Mustang, into the woods and almost lost the muffler on both of them. Never got stuck though.
Greg
 
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